Side Trips around the South / Tourist and new comer info:
Southern Secrets
Enhance your trip by taking the scenic route and get back on thrack
down the road.
                   Short  re- routes that you do not want to will miss when you visit or drive through.

Good restaurants...Scenic drives...Beautiful houses..Interesting Shopping
Quaint neighborhoods ...Generally considered safer*

With the advents of freeways a tourist can go hundreds of miles withouut having to make a stop, but if your goal is to explore and see new sights and have new experiences then consider these recommended options.
Alabama:
From Nashville,
heading south to the beach:/ Intestate 65

Florence;

Huntsville:

Cullman:
                               Cooks Museum of Natural History
                               Decatur preserve
Below Cullman
                          Old Highway 31.
                          Get off at Exit_____Blount Springs / Rickwood Caverns

Birmingham/Hoover: Click Here for complete info
                             Scenic Drives: make a loop and rejoin your route
                              Get off at exit---/ University Blvd.
                              Get off at exit --- /Alford avenue. . click . 7 miles detour
                              Beautiful houses, drive along the bluff / loop back for shopping at the Gallarea and rejoin i                                          nterstate 65 or click to continue
                             Get off at exit /// / Lakeshore drive . click . Zoo / Vestavia
                             Samford University / Mountain Brook / Upscale / Botonical Gardens
                             Shopping / Beautiful manisons / manicured lawns/ winding creek
                       Get off at exit ...    .  Click Here . Horse country



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